My husband also has a Garmin 305 and he really likes it. When i use it, it annoys me that sometimes it takes a few minutes to find the satellites but i think that's because i live in a city surrounded by tall buildings and not the fault of the monitor.

Oh yeah, it DOES take forever to find satellites. What I do is usually turn it on and leave it on a window sill while I'm getting my shoes on and stuff. By the time I'm ready to go it's found the satellites.

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I am looking at heart rate monitors, too! I'm thinking about the Garmin Forerunner 110, but now I'm considering the 305, too. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread--good luck, sunnybear!

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Garmin 305 enthusiast, absolutely all the way. It changed the way I run. And yeah, it takes a year and a half to find the satellites, but I'm in NYC. Don't care, I love my GPS/heart rate monitor. I got it initially for the time/distance aspect of it, but found myself falling in love with the heart rate feature. Now I'm able to get depressed when I haven't run in ages and my heart rate is high! yaaay

Thanks for all the feedback! I ended up going cheap and getting an Omron off of amazon. I've only used it once but it seems to do the job! I realized the other day when I was working out that my chest strap communications with the cardio machines at the gym so I don't always have to wear the watch. So that was pretty cool and unexpected :)